#168 Barbadians Explore South Carolina
The History of the Americans
Jack Henneman
4.9 • 632 Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Spaniards had been in South Carolina off and on since perhaps 1514, and certainly by 1521. Even in the 1660s Spaniards occasionally came up the coast to trade and visit Santa Helena on Parris Island, which had largely been abandoned to Indians. As late as 1663, however, the English had not explored even the coast of the future Palmetto State. That would change after the granting of the Carolina Proprietary in March 1663. In 1663 and 1666, two expeditions from Barbados, then perhaps the wealthiest corner of the nascent English empire, would explore coastal South Carolina, and set the stage for the first surviving English settlement on that coast, the town of Charleston in 1670. This is the story of those two expeditions, the first by William Hilton, after whom Hilton Head was quickly named, and the second by Robert Sandford, who named the Ashley River.
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Selected references for this episode (Commission earned for Amazon purchases through the website)
Edward McCrady, The History of South Carolina Under the Proprietary Government 1670-1719
L. H. Roper, Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots 1662-1729
Alexander S. Salley, Jr., Narratives of Early Carolina 1650-1708 (Includes narratives of William Heaton and Robert Sandford)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast, episode 168. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this episode on October 27, 2024, in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:20.3 | We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning |
| 0:25.3 | without intentional presentism. |
| 0:28.9 | We hit something of a milestone this week. |
| 0:32.3 | In the wee hours of October 21st, the History of the Americans podcast was downloaded for the one millionth time. |
| 0:43.4 | I'm grateful that this humble little pandemic project has attracted such a following. |
| 0:48.8 | And it's not just that our audience is big, certainly by the standards of a scruffy one-person history pod, but also |
| 0:57.3 | that it's very smart. |
| 0:59.5 | I know this from the thoughtful emails and other comments that come over the transom |
| 1:04.1 | by one means or another. |
| 1:06.6 | Thank you. |
| 1:08.0 | Keep telling your friends. |
| 1:09.7 | In-person recommendations are the very best way to spread the word. |
| 1:14.8 | If you know any school teachers, consider sending them a link to the timeline page of the podcast. |
| 1:21.0 | It's definitely the most detailed timeline of American history through the 1660s available anywhere. |
| 1:28.7 | By the 1660s, lots of things start to happen at the same time. |
| 1:34.5 | The history of the Americans gets dense and complicated, as a quick look at the timeline |
| 1:39.1 | or a scroll through the last couple of dozen episodes quickly reveals. |
| 1:43.9 | For example, last time we covered the first settlement in dozen episodes quickly reveals. |
| 1:47.5 | For example, last time we covered the first settlement in New Jersey. |
| 1:53.1 | But not much will happen there until the Dutch re-conquer New Netherland in 1673. |
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